Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 75 58
Rank change year-on-year -44 -17 -10
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,344 1,497 3,645
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.68% 3.66% 4.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 3.93% 4.69%
Number of salaries quoted 900 1,029 2,786
10th Percentile £50,468 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +14.57% -15.53%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61,153 38,054 77,716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.62% 93.06% 86.41%
Number of salaries quoted 37,653 22,322 57,935
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,097
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 2 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 2 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -33 1,226 £77,500 +3.33% 515
London +6 669 £87,500 +1.45% 226
Work from Home -17 597 £70,466 -2.12% 349
UK excluding London -106 568 £67,500 -3.57% 339
North of England -48 259 £67,500 -6.24% 130
North West -40 120 £67,500 -3.57% 76
South East -112 116 £75,000 +11.11% 90
Yorkshire -40 100 £70,000 -2.77% 31
South West -64 62 £65,000 -5.14% 35
Midlands -62 59 £67,500 +3.85% 36
North East +1 39 £65,000 +23.81% 28
East of England -28 38 £63,750 +10.87% 20
West Midlands -33 33 £72,500 +3.57% 21
Scotland -86 29 £60,000 -20.00% 16
East Midlands -62 25 £67,500 +3.85% 15
Wales -22 9 £55,200 +8.24% 13
Northern Ireland -39 5 £62,500 +13.64% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 30 (2.23%) Apache Spark
2 19 (1.41%) Apache
3 18 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.26%) Confluence
5 15 (1.12%) OpenStack
5 15 (1.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 13 (0.97%) JBoss
7 11 (0.82%) WebSphere
8 10 (0.74%) IIS
9 9 (0.67%) CMS
10 5 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.37%) Appian
11 4 (0.30%) Camunda
11 4 (0.30%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.30%) nginx
12 3 (0.22%) Liferay
12 3 (0.22%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
14 1 (0.074%) CICS
Applications
1 14 (1.04%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.52%) Maya
4 4 (0.30%) PlantUML
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 8 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.37%) Endur
4 4 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.15%) SAP FS
5 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Shopify
6 1 (0.074%) Actimize
6 1 (0.074%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.074%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.074%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.074%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.074%) Quorum
6 1 (0.074%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.074%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.074%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 745 (55.43%) AWS
2 581 (43.23%) Azure
3 310 (23.07%) GCP
4 238 (17.71%) Serverless
5 174 (12.95%) SaaS
6 118 (8.78%) GitHub
7 111 (8.26%) AWS Lambda
8 109 (8.11%) Amazon S3
9 101 (7.51%) Amazon EKS
10 96 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
11 71 (5.28%) AWS CloudFormation
12 68 (5.06%) Amazon SQS
13 67 (4.99%) Amazon ECS
14 53 (3.94%) Amazon EC2
15 49 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 48 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
17 46 (3.42%) OpenShift
18 44 (3.27%) PaaS
19 38 (2.83%) Azure Service Bus
20 35 (2.60%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.79%) Broadband
2 11 (0.82%) HTTP
3 8 (0.60%) AMQP
4 7 (0.52%) Internet
4 7 (0.52%) Network Security
5 6 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (0.45%) DNS
5 6 (0.45%) Firewall
6 5 (0.37%) DHCP
6 5 (0.37%) MQTT
7 4 (0.30%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.30%) SNMP
7 4 (0.30%) WAN
8 3 (0.22%) Modbus
8 3 (0.22%) Multicast
8 3 (0.22%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.15%) LTE
9 2 (0.15%) SSL
10 1 (0.074%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (13.76%) NoSQL
2 175 (13.02%) PostgreSQL
3 119 (8.85%) MongoDB
4 115 (8.56%) SQL Server
5 75 (5.58%) MySQL
6 67 (4.99%) Relational Database
7 62 (4.61%) DynamoDB
8 49 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (2.90%) Redis
10 32 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
10 32 (2.38%) BigQuery
11 30 (2.23%) Big Data
12 27 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
13 22 (1.64%) RDBMS
14 14 (1.04%) DB2
14 14 (1.04%) Power BI
15 13 (0.97%) Pinecone
16 11 (0.82%) Data Lake
17 10 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
18 9 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 181 (13.47%) Git
2 125 (9.30%) Jenkins
3 86 (6.40%) GitLab
4 56 (4.17%) TeamCity
5 49 (3.65%) JIRA
6 43 (3.20%) Cucumber
7 34 (2.53%) JUnit
8 31 (2.31%) Selenium
9 30 (2.23%) Cypress.io
10 29 (2.16%) CircleCI
11 19 (1.41%) Bitbucket
12 18 (1.34%) Mockito
13 17 (1.26%) Maven
14 14 (1.04%) Claude Code
15 13 (0.97%) SonarQube
16 11 (0.82%) Vite
17 10 (0.74%) JMeter
17 10 (0.74%) Postman
18 8 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
18 8 (0.60%) Visual Studio
General
1 398 (29.61%) Finance
2 365 (27.16%) Social Skills
3 165 (12.28%) Banking
4 107 (7.96%) Law
5 93 (6.92%) Public Sector
6 89 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
7 78 (5.80%) Retail
8 69 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 58 (4.32%) Financial Institution
10 53 (3.94%) Telecoms
11 45 (3.35%) Back Office
12 21 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.41%) Billing
13 19 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.34%) Advertising
14 18 (1.34%) Games
15 17 (1.26%) Legal
16 13 (0.97%) Marketing
17 11 (0.82%) Manufacturing
17 11 (0.82%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 469 (34.90%) Developer
2 349 (25.97%) Senior
3 275 (20.46%) Software Engineer
4 207 (15.40%) Architect
5 172 (12.80%) Lead
6 122 (9.08%) Full-Stack Developer
7 117 (8.71%) Senior Developer
8 110 (8.18%) Java Developer
9 96 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
10 94 (6.99%) Solutions Architect
11 84 (6.25%) Java Engineer
12 75 (5.58%) .NET Developer
13 64 (4.76%) Software Developer
14 52 (3.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 48 (3.57%) Java Software Engineer
16 46 (3.42%) Lead Developer
17 44 (3.27%) Principal Engineer
18 39 (2.90%) C# Developer
19 36 (2.68%) Senior Java Developer
19 36 (2.68%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 305 (22.69%) React
2 304 (22.62%) .NET
3 275 (20.46%) RESTful
4 222 (16.52%) Spring
5 218 (16.22%) REST
6 201 (14.96%) Node.js
7 193 (14.36%) Spring Boot
8 172 (12.80%) Kafka
9 119 (8.85%) AngularJS
10 96 (7.14%) .NET Core
11 91 (6.77%) gRPC
12 80 (5.95%) HTML
13 69 (5.13%) .NET Framework
13 69 (5.13%) CSS
14 66 (4.91%) RabbitMQ
15 61 (4.54%) ASP.NET
16 57 (4.24%) Vue
17 56 (4.17%) Django
18 54 (4.02%) Middleware
19 51 (3.79%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 384 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 238 (17.71%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (8.04%) Product Ownership
4 97 (7.22%) Enterprise Software
5 60 (4.46%) Greenfield Project
6 51 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (3.35%) Over-the-Top Content
7 45 (3.35%) Video\Live Streaming
8 39 (2.90%) Data Structures
9 35 (2.60%) Algorithms
10 30 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
11 27 (2.01%) Distributed Architecture
12 25 (1.86%) Virtual Team
13 24 (1.79%) Mobile App
14 22 (1.64%) AI Agents
14 22 (1.64%) Blockchain
15 17 (1.26%) IoT
16 16 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
16 16 (1.19%) Management Information System
17 15 (1.12%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 59 (4.39%) Linux
2 22 (1.64%) Windows
3 16 (1.19%) Android
4 7 (0.52%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.45%) Unix
6 5 (0.37%) CentOS
6 5 (0.37%) Debian
6 5 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.074%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.074%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 646 (48.07%) CI/CD
2 549 (40.85%) Agile
3 521 (38.76%) DevOps
4 520 (38.69%) Software Engineering
5 377 (28.05%) Containerisation
6 326 (24.26%) Full-Stack Development
7 290 (21.58%) Problem-Solving
8 275 (20.46%) Mentoring
9 266 (19.79%) Event-Driven
10 260 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 253 (18.82%) Test Automation
12 236 (17.56%) AI
13 206 (15.33%) Computer Science
14 192 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
15 163 (12.13%) Scrum
16 159 (11.83%) Clean Code
16 159 (11.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 153 (11.38%) Roadmaps
17 153 (11.38%) Technical Leadership
18 151 (11.24%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 434 (32.29%) Java
2 372 (27.68%) Python
3 287 (21.35%) SQL
4 263 (19.57%) JavaScript
5 252 (18.75%) C#
6 213 (15.85%) TypeScript
7 123 (9.15%) Go
8 51 (3.79%) Scala
9 41 (3.05%) PHP
10 38 (2.83%) C++
11 34 (2.53%) C
12 33 (2.46%) Bash
13 28 (2.08%) Ruby
14 23 (1.71%) Kotlin
15 22 (1.64%) PL/SQL
16 16 (1.19%) Shell Script
17 15 (1.12%) PowerShell
18 13 (0.97%) Rust
19 10 (0.74%) Groovy
20 8 (0.60%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 202 (15.03%) Degree
2 127 (9.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 114 (8.48%) Security Cleared
4 80 (5.95%) SC Cleared
5 59 (4.39%) AWS Certification
6 41 (3.05%) Master's Degree
7 37 (2.75%) Azure Certification
8 30 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (2.23%) TOGAF Certification
9 26 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
11 15 (1.12%) DV Cleared
12 14 (1.04%) CISSP
13 9 (0.67%) CISM
14 8 (0.60%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.60%) PhD
15 6 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.45%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (5.95%) QA
2 30 (2.23%) GDPR
3 28 (2.08%) PCI DSS
4 25 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.04%) SOC 2
7 12 (0.89%) NIST
8 10 (0.74%) NCSC
9 7 (0.52%) GRC
10 6 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.30%) EMIR
11 4 (0.30%) IFRS
11 4 (0.30%) SLA
12 3 (0.22%) Data Quality
12 3 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.22%) SEPA
12 3 (0.22%) WCAG
13 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 416 (30.95%) Docker
2 13 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.37%) Firmware
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.074%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.074%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 415 (30.88%) Kubernetes
2 236 (17.56%) Terraform
3 87 (6.47%) Grafana
4 77 (5.73%) Ansible
5 36 (2.68%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.71%) Kibana
7 14 (1.04%) Argo
8 9 (0.67%) HP Fortify
8 9 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.45%) Puppet
10 5 (0.37%) Cilium
11 4 (0.30%) Istio
11 4 (0.30%) Packer
12 3 (0.22%) Nagios
12 3 (0.22%) Rancher
13 2 (0.15%) MIIS
13 2 (0.15%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.074%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 126 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 59 (4.39%) Google
3 49 (3.65%) Oracle
4 45 (3.35%) Typelevel
5 19 (1.41%) IBM
6 17 (1.26%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.19%) OpenAI
7 16 (1.19%) Red Hat
7 16 (1.19%) SAP
8 13 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
8 13 (0.97%) Dynatrace
9 12 (0.89%) AppDynamics
10 11 (0.82%) Software AG
11 10 (0.74%) Atlassian
11 10 (0.74%) BiZZdesign
11 10 (0.74%) Cisco
11 10 (0.74%) MuleSoft
11 10 (0.74%) Palo Alto
12 9 (0.67%) Databricks
12 9 (0.67%) Splunk